BBK intake install
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Racer
Joined: Jan 2006
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From: West Point Utah
BBK intake install
I'm going to be installing a new BBK intake this week. Are there any tricks to make the swap easy or is it a fairly straight forward swap? The instructions with the intake look pretty straight forward. Thanks in advance. Laurence 
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From: Durant Ok
Its a pretty straighforward swap, I would suggest getting a friend to lend a hand when installing it to hold the back 2 intake bolts up while installing it. Remove the pcv lines running behind your intake to allow more room to reach back there and unhook your oil pressure sending unit, map sensor and the small vacuum line thats attached right under the map sensor, and unplug the vaccum line running to the brake booster and pull that hose out when you pull your old intake. Dont forget to replace the back right valley cover bolt with the one supplied, I would also put locktite on all of the bottom plate bolts on the intake cause they will back out. Thats about everything that I can think of at this time, good luck. 
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From: anthony NM
You wount be able to get the tourqe wrench back there so nyou will have to do the rear bolts by feel.
Burning Brakes
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From: St. Paul MN
excellent choice on your manifold purchase, check out this thread, it morphed into a BBK vs FAST discussion...be prepared though there are a lot of "BBKs are yucky" style comments!
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show....php?t=1887949
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show....php?t=1887949
